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In a shocking interview, he took jabs at the crucial US ally. Apparently threatening to crackdown on one Korea wasn’t enough.While warning of a potential “major, major conflict” with North Korea during a Reuters interview on Thursday, President Donald Trump made it clear that he was also planning to take a hard line with South Korea over trade and the cost of deploying an advanced anti-mi [続きを読む]

Nearly all of Neil Gaiman’s books have a moment where the narrator steps back, looks at the reader knowingly, and says, “You get that this is a metaphor, right?” In Stardust, Fairy is a metaphor for story; in Neverwhere, London Below is a metaphor for the unknown. And as you’re nodding and saying, “Yes, I took high school English, I see what you’re doing here,” the narrator will add, [続きを読む]

An interview with the author of The Handmaid’s Tale. In the Republic of Gilead, a totalitarian theocracy, each wealthy and powerful man has a team of women to serve him. "Martha" cleans his home. The "Handmaid," one of the few fertile women in the military regime, presents her body for him, lying silently on her back while he thrusts into her. His wife, hoping to become a mother to the offs [続きを読む]

To understand what France’s election means, and what it tells us about the rise of far-right movements around Europe, you need to understand two fundamental truths about the results.The first is that it’s a historic victory for the far-right Marine Le Pen and her Front National party. Le Pen was one of two candidates who qualified for the second round, soundly beating the standard-bearers [続きを読む]

When powerful men are accused of sexual assault, they stand strong together. When their accusers become vocal about being sexually harassed, they're paid to shut up. Nothing seems clearer in the aftermath of Bill O’Reilly’s exit from Fox News.Sure, O’Reilly is leaving the network, but Fox News knew of the several sexual harassment allegations against him long before the rest of the world [続きを読む]

He might blow up the law ― or himself. Obamacare’s biggest challenge right now has nothing to do with the flailing Republican bid to repeal and replace it. It’s President Trump’s threats to undermine obscure but important payments that help millions of Americans afford their health care.The Affordable Care Act has aided millions in purchasing private health insurance through billions of [続きを読む]

Meet the “Infowarriors” who quote Žižek and want Trump to protect the earth. Alex Jones’s show Infowars often feels like a dark comedy. According to the conspiracy-fueled media titan, there’s a “fungal epidemic” causing everything from rampant brain tumors to Crohn’s disease. Sesame Street’s new Muppet was really designed to normalize autism, a disorder caused by vaccines. Bill Ga [続きを読む]

A startup called Juicero sells a $400 machine for making fresh-squeezed juice. Customers buy the machine and then they get a subscription to special Juicero bags of unsqueezed fruit. You put a bag into the machine and push a button, and in a couple of minutes you have a cup of fresh-squeezed juice.But a pair of Bloomberg reporters discovered something hilarious: Squeezing the bags with your [続きを読む]

LGBTQ people wanted to have a pride march in Chechnya. Then 100 gay men were abducted by police. On April 1, a report in Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta rocked the global LGBTQ community: At least 100 men who are gay or believed to be gay had been recently rounded up and tortured by authorities in Chechnya, in the Northern Caucuses region of southern Russia. And at least three, according to [続きを読む]

The election of Donald Trump was a major shock to the left. It was not supposed to happen. It was not even supposed to be possible for it to happen. Many shuffle about their daily tasks suffused in gloom and pessimism. With Trump in the White House, and the Republicans in control of Congress and most states, surely little of the progressive agenda will remain in a few years. His brand of xen [続きを読む]

ROCKVILLE, Maryland ― A 36-year-old woman was working on her taxes with a tax preparer Friday morning when a green box popped up on the computer screen: “Taxpayer’s Social Security number is not valid.” This wasn’t a surprise. The woman was an undocumented housekeeper from El Salvador who had come to file her tax returns at Casa de Maryland, which hosts two federally subsidized tax cent [続きを読む]

A half-forgotten pop star and two great TV shows return, plus a podcast, two epic movies, and more. Between movies, books, music, comics, podcasts, and the ever-growing glut of TV, there’s a ton of pop culture out there.It can be a lot to keep up with. So we here at Vox Culture ― where we’re currently into creepy British thrillers, a Pulitzer-winning novel, and a half-forgotten pop star [続きを読む]

About two months ago, Colin Curtis received a call from a friend in his native state of Kansas with a long-shot request: The friend was leading a Democratic candidate’s campaign for a House district in the Wichita area, and he wanted Curtis to join. “I was pretty skeptical. I said that I thought it sounded crazy,” said Curtis, who was at the time living in Washington, DC, and working at t [続きを読む]

It’s easy to stoke fears of faceless refugee masses. Here’s a small way to fight back. When we encounter a stranger, one of our first (unconscious) thoughts is a question: Is there a mind in there? As humans, we have a unique ability to recognize others as having minds ― capable of feeling, thinking, and acting ― separate from our own. And the answer to the question “Is there a mind in [続きを読む]

Everything that happens on this teen drama is the biggest thing to ever have happened. Every single episode of The Get Down, Baz Luhrmann and Stephen Adly Guirgis’s Netflix series about the early days of hip-hop, feels like a season finale. Every installment is packed with huge moments, even bigger montages, and emotional landmines constantly threatening to explode. It’s a show that ratche [続きを読む]

Pearl Mackie’s Bill Potts won’t be like any of the companions that came before her. Doctor Who is not just returning on April 15 after a lengthy hiatus but returning with a brand new companion for the Doctor ― and as actress Pearl Mackie has now revealed, she’ll be the first openly gay companion since the show premiered 54 years ago."[Being gay] is not the main thing that defines her cha [続きを読む]

President Trump’s Russia problems are getting worse here at home, with the FBI conducting a formal criminal probe into his campaign’s ties to Moscow and his disgraced former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, seeking an immunity deal in exchange for his cooperation with the House and Senate panels conducting Trump/Russia investigations of their own.That would be more than enough in [続きを読む]

Early on in The Idiot, the slightly chilly and deeply playful debut novel from New Yorker writer Elif Batuman, our heroine Selin offers a mission statement of sorts for her writing.Selin is describing a short story she wrote for an art workshop during her first year at Harvard: “Like all the stories I wrote at that time,” she says, “it was based on an unusual atmosphere that had impressed [続きを読む]

The director’s misunderstood classic knows that sadness can’t be defeated, only lived with. Wes Anderson has made more consistent films than The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou. He’s made more obviously perfect ones. He’s probably made better ones.But since I first saw Life Aquatic upon its release in 2004, I’ve been convinced he’s never made a greater one. Grand and messy and a little [続きを読む]

To defeat ISIS in the long term, you need to fund the State Department and USAID. The Trump administration is hosting a meeting today of the 68 countries battling ISIS to take stock of the current campaign and plan their next moves. It should be a big moment for President Trump, who won the White House after vowing to eradicate the group. The problem is that Trump’s proposal to slash the St [続きを読む]

Plus: pop hits of the ‘80s, Philip in a cowboy hat, and Paige’s continued existential crisis Every week, some of Vox’s writers will gather to discuss the latest episode of FX’s spy drama The Americans. This week, Vox critic at large Todd VanDerWerff, deputy culture editor Genevieve Koski, and staff writer Dara Lind are here to dissect “The Midges,” the third episode of season five.Warn [続きを読む]

On Monday, President Donald Trump signed a new executive order temporarily banning people from six Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States. As Vox’s Dara Lind explains, the new order is designed to limit some of the chaos the original one created by exempting green card holders and anyone who already had a visa from the ban. It also removes Iraq from the original list of b [続きを読む]

It’s never too late to catch up. One of the most shocking Oscars ceremonies in recent memory ― or hell, any memory ― has come to a close, with Moonlight upsetting frontrunner La La Land to win Best Picture in an especially chaotic crowning, thanks to an apparent envelope mix-up that led Faye Dunaway to mistakenly announce La La Land as the winner. But the entire evening was one for the bo [続きを読む]

#actually everyone knew that. In remarks at a press preview of his budget priorities on Monday, President Donald Trump teased the idea that, after working with his team and in consultation with Republican governors, he is nearly ready to unveil his plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. “We have come up with a solution that’s really really I think very good,” he said, before [続きを読む]